Exploring history and culture in Thessaloniki
A short weekend away in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Blog
2019
Scatterplot annotation
Annotating scatterplots in R. Drawing polygons around point clusters using base functions and R packages ggplot, ggalt and ggforce.
Exploring the Swedish west coast
A road trip exploring the west coast of Sweden.
Road trip through Portugal
A conference and road trip through Portugal.
A guide to elegant tiled heatmaps in R [2019]
A step-by-step guide to data preparation and plotting of simple, neat and elegant heatmaps in R using base graphics and ggplot2.
Beautiful circos plots in R
Circos plots are popular for displaying huge amounts of data in a relatively small visual space. This is especially relevant for genomic data. This post expl...
2018
Fast LD computation from VCF files using Tomahawk
Fast LD computation from a VCF file using vcftools, bcftools and tomahawk. This avoids the use of PLINK or conversion to PLINK formats.
Using google maps for aerial photography
Using google maps 3D for drone photography composition. Google maps 3D can be a useful tool to help you find the right composition in advance when planning a...
Calendar plot shiny app and dynamic UI
Create an interactive calendar plot in R using Shiny.
Calendar plot with ggplot2
Creating an availability calendar plot using ggplot2 in R.
Customising ggplot2
Customising a ggplot2 plot using the theme function. In this post, we are going to explore how to adjust various ggplot plot elements. What can be adjusted, ...
Mini terrariums
Mini terrariums in glass bowls.
2017
Snowy Landscapes
A short winter getaway and snow landscape photography.
Photo calender using R
Create an elegant photo calendar completely using R.
Scraping Instagram and choosing hashtags
Scraping Instagram for basic public data using R to help us pick “optimal” hastags.
Road trip through Texas, USA
A conference trip to Austin, Texas and my experiences.
Exploring cosmic landscapes in Iceland
My first trip to Iceland, pictures, route and some insights.
Running ImageJ on a Linux cluster
A quick tutorial on running ImageJ on a Linux cluster.
Multiple Statistical Testing
In the advent of big data such as genomics, running numerous statistical tests is unavoidable. But long comes strange statistical problems. This post investi...
Tropical break in India
A short vacation to Kerala, India to rejuvenate myself.
Humanity has never lived in better times
It is easy to be disillusioned and pessimistic about the world we live in. Bad news seems to be followed by worse news. But humanity has come a long way from...
2016
Golden colours of the Autumn
Autumn/Fall pictures from Uppsala.
Autumn in Fulufjället
Autumn pictures from Fulufjällets national park.
Read counts of RNA-Seq Spike-ins using STAR and QoRTs
A short tutorial on quantifying spike-ins used in an RNA-Seq experiment.
Wild road trip through Scotland
A week-long trip to Scotland
Which file compression to use on Linux?
This is a quick comparison of some of the data compression and decompression formats on Linux. The idea is to compare compression/decompression time and comp...
Curious about a Bee Swarm
A little video about a honey bee swarm in the apple trees.
The FortaCloud fraud
My horrible experience with cloud computing service fortacloud.co and why you should stay clear of this service too.
City trip to Leeds, UK
A short trip to Leeds
Polar adventures through Swedish Lapland
A week long winter roadtrip from Uppsala, Sweden to Narvik, Norway through the pristine taiga landscapes of Swedish Lapland in search of snow, auroras and wi...
2015
Structure ‘Sort by Q’ explained
STRUCTURE is a popular software used by biologists to infer the population structure of organisms using genetic markers. Barplots in STRUCTURE have an option...
Björn the Norwegian forest cat
Photographs of a friend’s cat named Björn. Björn is a fluffy Norwegian forest cat.
A guide to elegant tiled heatmaps in R
A step-by-step guide to data preparation and plotting of simple, neat and elegant heatmaps in R using base graphics and ggplot2.
Elegant scientific graphs: Learning from examples
Scientific graphics are key to understanding complex data. In addition to graphing data, it is important that the graphics are clean, elegant and visually st...
Hamra National Park
A short trip to Hamra national park in central Sweden.
Markdown basics
Introduction to the basics of markdown markup.
Low-Polygon Portrait
A short guide to creating a low-polygon portrait using Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop.
Exploring South Sweden
A short road trip from Copenhagen, Denmark to Uppsala, Sweden travelling through several locations in Southern Sweden.
Choosing a platform for a personal website
A general introduction and comparison of platforms for hosting a personal website. This is just a primer to the different options available and not a detaile...